AMHERST – Poor weather Friday night caused a tractor-trailer and three other vehicles to slide off Route 9 in Hancock County, according to police.

None of the drivers was hurt, Hancock County Deputy Luke Gross said.

It took three wreckers more than three hours, including a 15-minute closure of the highway, to get the truck back onto Route 9, he said.

The truck, which was carrying a load of crushed glass for recycling, was demolished.

“[It was] Mother Nature at its best,” Gross said. The crushed glass, he said, “went everywhere.”

The driver of the truck, Frederick J. Lavoie, 31, of Moncton, New Brunswick, was driving east on the highway around 8:45 p.m. when the truck slid on the road and hit a mailbox and a section of guardrail, according to the deputy. He said the cab of the truck got hung up on the guardrail but the trailer slid off the road and dangled down an embankment when the truck rolled onto its side.

The 1999 Western truck had an estimated $25,000 in damage, Gross said.

The drivers of two other vehicles that slid off the road Friday night managed to get their vehicles back onto the highway and go safely on their way before police arrived, he said.

A fourth vehicle, a 2002 Dodge sedan, had $1,200 in damage when it went off the road in Amherst and hit a rock, according to Gross.

The Dodge driver, Sidney J. Tabb, 39, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident and was unhurt.

“Thank God for seat belts,” the deputy said.